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A reflection thread on yet another traumatic, inspiring, bigotry-fueled, and gratitude-filled day spent in the Missouri Capitol 🧵 #ProtectTransKids #OmnibusBillOfHate #MOLeg
Tuesday in the Missouri Capitol was awful. We left our homes at 5am to testify at an 8am hearing on the #OmnibusBillOfHate. But dozens and dozens of us (myself and a whole bunch of students included) were prevented from testifying by the Committee Chair, who shut off testimony
The afternoon was much, much worse. We had hearings on EIGHT bills targeting trans kids, with testimony starting at 4:30pm and going past midnight (and for those in STL/KC, that means a 2h drive after that.)
Here we go! Follow this thread for live coverage of Missouri #SB42, an anti-CRT, don't say gay, anti-trans kids, anti-DEI bill that I'm calling the #OmnibusBillOfHate #MOLeg
Committee chair says "since this bill is almost identical to so man other bills" they're going to try to keep it under an hour. Audible laughter in the galley from the room full of folks who woke up at 5am to be here to testify.
Now they're looking for witnesses out in the hallway who are testifying in support of this bill...because so so so many people are here to oppose Missouri's #OmnibusBillOfHate
I'm sitting here pulling out my hair, trying to think of the words to say in my 2-minutes of testimony tomorrow that might make a shred of difference, and it's hard not to wonder if any of this really matters; if any of these (GOP) legislators really care. #ProtectTransKids #SB42
Here's the bill if anyone wants to read it: legiscan.com/MO/text/SB42/i…
Live tweeting as I read this. On page 1 and reading the definitions, and like, these are the same people who call *us* snowflakes?
-(8) Any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on
account of his or her race or sex;
-(8) Any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on
account of his or her race or sex;
